gnarled

kyhmyinen knotty Knotty and misshapen.
(RQ:Vance Nobody)

Three chairs of the steamer type, all maimed, comprised the furniture of this roof-garden, with(..)on one of the copings a row of four red clay flower-pots filled with sun-baked dust from which gnarled and rusty stalks thrust themselves up like withered elfin limbs.